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Elon Musk
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Professionals & Academics
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A remarkable man in possession of limitless curiosity and intellect, Elon Musk makes a fascinating subject.
Tech reporter Ashlee Vance has shadowed him for a year to bring us an engaging and deeply personal account of the man who wants to send us into outer space.
South African-born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it.
He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey, Jr. The personal tale of Musk's life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school and abused by his father. In the midst of these rough conditions and the violence of apartheid South Africa, Musk still thrived academically and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties.
He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. Musk was forced out as CEO and so began his lost years, in which he decided to go it alone and baffled friends by investing his fortune in rockets and electric cars. Meanwhile Musk's marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life....
Elon Musk is the Steve Jobs of the present and the future and for the past 12 months he has been shadowed by tech reporter Ashlee Vance. Elon Musk is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.
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- Paramasivam Baskar
- 08-01-19
Bit biased but awesome read
Loved his view of life. Here is what I got - Strongly opinionated, unconventional and encouraging. Follow your heart, keep yourself informed. Read as much as possible on topics of your interest.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-10-19
Brilliant writing!
The book had an amazing flow describing everything in perfect detail, right from Elon's beginning to what he is now. Amazing listen!
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-11-18
Inspiring and mind blowing
This book describes how dedicated and committed Elon musk is to achieve his goals. You will get an insight to how he started in South Africa, came to USA and became the Celebrity Entrepreneur he is today. There are chapters dedicated to each phase in his life. The narration was very interesting. Fred Sander changes his tone every time someone speaks. Overall the book and the narration both deserve a 5 star.
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*****felt sad as the book pages came to end****
Loved it. The laser focussed nature of Sir Musk, is contagious. everyone afraid of facing life, hard work or any challenge must read this book. Book is celebrating hardwork, honest and perseverance. Audible app is best in class to deliver such a good experience. Thanks to entire team ....Elon sir, writer, reader and also audible team plus Jeff sir . best regards Maneesh
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- Hussain Hyderabad I
- 25-07-20
Elon rocks
Loved it, must listen if you want to get motivated, listen now go ahead and download.
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- Sneha
- 28-10-19
Getting upclose with my idol
Getting glimpse of the man i admire and idolise is the greatest treat. aspiring and inspiring tale of a man who defies all the rules to make the world little better than before.
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- A
- 11-01-21
Addictive
Loved the story so much that i couldn't wait to start the next chapter. Narration is great
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- Mukku Pratap
- 31-12-20
Inspirational
One of the best books I have read. Learnt many things. Amazing Vision, dedication, enthusiasm, hardwork, perseverance, Workaholic. Must read (or listen) Book for those who are interested in making the World a better place.
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- Saurabh G.
- 29-12-20
A bit intricate for an audiobook
Inspiring yet needs a lot of background study to understand certain points. A great audiobook otherwise.
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- Prashanth
- 25-12-20
Xceptional biography of an Xtraordinary individual
If anyone is even slightly interested about Elon Musk, don't think twice, read or listen to the audiobook and you will be glad you picked it up. Inspirational stuff.
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- innovate risk
- 26-10-17
Fascinating insight
This is an excellent audio book onto the insights of Elon Musk. In particular the first half provides a brilliant view of his background, his leadership style and the type of personality that drives such an interesting person.
I did find the second half of the book a bit too much about the industry of space exploration, electric cars and solar power. This meant you were losing the insights into the person, and it became a more technical book on the industry.
Overall a great read but perhaps this should have been 2 books - one about the person and one about the industries.
9 people found this helpful
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- Alison Cope
- 13-08-17
Fascinating
I found Elon's story really fascinating but I would have liked to hear more from Elon himself.
6 people found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 03-03-20
Proudly South African
Great story and very inspiring. Elon has a brilliant mind and makes me proud to be a South African. Would highly recommend this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-06-18
Excellent Book
Loved the book and the narrator was really good. Easy to listen to. Put the book on everyday while working.
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- Fabrice Kabongo
- 12-06-16
Very inspiring!
when you listen to this book, you know your dream of changing the world can be achieved
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-09-20
wow. simply wow.
Man you must listen to this. One of the most beautiful commentaries I have ever listened to.
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- vincentkhsg
- 05-09-20
First audible book
Excellent read / listen. Gives you a good idea what kind of leader tesla and spaceX has. Good audio quality.
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- Carl Glyde
- 23-08-20
Gripping
I found this whole story fascinating, and so motivating. I listened to it at the gym with my headphones instead of upbeat music. Absolutely awesome.
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- Jamie
- 18-06-20
Elon f*cking Musk
Absolutely inspiring, the man is a beast. What I find incredible is how it all started when he left Joburg! Wild wild wild.
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- Anirudh Pandya
- 17-06-20
Emotionless - only facts no character
Reading this book was like reading the encyclopaedia dedicated to Elon Musk. Probably gave Elon an ego boost, it left me uninspired. Could not read more than 2 chapters.
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- Andrew
- 15-01-17
Fascinating insight but a little repetitive
Well written book with a good relatively independent view of the history of Musks companies. Issue is repetitive nature of second half of the book- lots of the same principles come up time and again without really developing much further insight into the direction or the individual.
15 people found this helpful
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- Arvin Seeva
- 26-12-16
An eye opening insight into the future.
A recommended biography of a person that sounds like a slave driver, but driven by passion for a better future and humanity.
10 people found this helpful
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- Robert
- 13-12-16
Too much rambling
There are very good parts in this book about Elon Musk's career but there is a lot of filler by talking about how his companies do better than the competition by doing this or other design choices. Most of them are subjective opinions of the author or the people interviewed and are not measurable facts. Also all of his childhood living with his father is missing yet they keep alluding to it later on as a key point in his life. I feel I learned something from Elon as an entrepeneur in spite of the filler of this book though so not all was lost.
9 people found this helpful
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- John
- 20-12-16
The power of personality
If you could sum up Elon Musk in three words, what would they be?
insightful, enjoyable, entertaining
What did you like best about this story?
Musk is just a balls out force of will.
What about Fred Sanders’s performance did you like?
He is a solid performer and made the autobiography experience enjoyable.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No
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- Beshr
- 03-12-16
Well-rounded great book
Really deserves all 5 stars. Most importantly is the fact that a lot of lessons can be distilled from this book, which is much more important than "performance" or "story". Highly recommended.
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- MJK
- 01-10-16
Great insight into Musk's worldview
Really enjoyed this background on the vision and drive of Elon Musk. Puts a lot of things in perspective and tells an amazing story. Well worth a listen.
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- David Sucea
- 10-09-16
Amazing
Very good book, highly recommended. It shows what it really takes to be successful if you translate it to whatever it is you would like to do
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- J. Tyler
- 17-01-17
Very good
Good narrator, great insight into Elon Musk and overall a very good book. Incredibly interesting!!!
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- Ed R
- 05-01-17
Inspirational story
Being an engineer myself I found learning about Musk's approach and achievements fascinating and inspiring. Would highly recommend for anyone interested in technology or business.
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- MR R.
- 08-11-16
Hard work
Quite sycophantic & laborious. Not delivered with much emotion or deep personal insight. Elon Musk is an interesting character but this biography doesn't really convey it well. I appreciate readers are generally supposed to give the impression of the person reading it themselves but it was dryly delivered & was a real struggle to finish. Lack of deep personal information also lacking.
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- Michael
- 17-06-16
An underwhelming narrative of a really cool guy
This book is a bit of a let-down. You will learn a bit about Elon and his companies, but it will sap 13 hours of your life away and you won't be a better person for it.
You'd think there's so much you can learn from Elon Musk, but this author didn't really make much effort to gather any nuggets of insightful information, just snippets of hearsay from sources that have worked around Elon. Listening to the book feels kind of perverted because it's written in a way where the author digs up lots of dirt on him the way a trash magazine reports on the secret lives of celebrities.
The Author even gloats mildly about his tenacity in pestering Musk until he agreed to let him write the book.
Don't bother listening to this one.
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- Mikhail
- 17-06-16
Fascinating story of an exceptional man
Things I liked:
1. Elon Musk's story is nothing like you have ever heard, even if you have studied the greatest men and women to grace this planet.
2. His big picture thinking and pursuit of ideals, never backing down until those ideals are achieved is grandiose.
3. The idea that a man like this is alive at this present moment gives me the extra motivation to work hard on my purpose and perhaps come across Elon one day.
4. Both the writing by Ashlee Vance and reading by Fred Sanders is fantastic. The story flows very well and I will undoubtedly be listening to this again.
Things I disliked:
1. I wish there was more.
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- Rufus Keown
- 31-05-17
A really good read (listen)
Really enjoyed musks story of obsession and his drive to make the world a better place. Highly recommended for those who believe in a bright future.
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- Mark
- 21-05-16
Loved it
Great story well told, if slightly biased towards the end. He is an amazing and terrifying man.
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- MKG
- 07-05-16
Best Biography Ever!
Simply the most impressive and exciting true story about a person's life that I've ever known.
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- Thomas
- 05-08-19
Great book
Couldn’t put this book down, Elon is a super interesting bloke. Made my top 15 list
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- Anonymous User
- 31-07-17
Changing force
Musk has ambitions that are so magnetic that it makes you want to change the world too.
He really is shaping the future, Ashlee Vance does an outstanding job presenting this.
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- benedict
- 20-05-16
such an amazing story.
Extreme management and perseverance to achieve what he does, inevitably burning people on the way. His arrogance and dictator style leadership means he achieves the impossible. Lucky he has an underlying altruistic vision of solutions for humananity which drives him.
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- Julian Rich
- 22-07-20
Amazing person
I love this guys vision. If one thing is for sure, it is we need more visionaries like him.
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- Brian
- 11-07-16
Brilliant book
An amazing story of a truly remarkable and resilient man. Vance captures Musk's personality, both good and bad points, and digs deep into his success and failures.
Very well narrated.
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